FOSS4G Community

Introduction to FOSS GIS

2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

Jeff McKenna Gateway Geomatics

Living in the FOSS4G Community


Outline

OSGeo Goals

Sponsors

Structure

Projects

FOSS4G community

- only ~20 slides-

Open Source Geospatial Timeline

(based on http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Source_GIS_History)


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What is OSGeo?

Open Source Geospatial Foundation (www.osgeo.org)

A non-profit organization

Legally registered in Delaware, United States

Started in February 2006

Today is the leading voice for free geospatial software

Similar in operation to the Apache Foundation

Everyone is a volunteer, only the Executive Director
is employed by the Foundation

- registered in United States, but members/chapters/projects based all across the world- could mention the initial backing by Autodesk (public knowledge)


OSGeo's Mission Statement

To support the development of open source geospatial software, and promote its widespread use.

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OSGeo Goals (part 1)

Provide resources for projects Technical

Legal

Funding

Promote freely available data

Promote project use in industry

Encourage the use of standards

Provide a common brand of quality

- talk about technical infrastructure (trac, wikis, mailing lists)- funding is dispersed through osgeo to projects
- branding is big, in terms of competing with large proprietary products



Make software more accessible to users Provide installers

Provide support for OSGeo software use in education

Encourage cooperation between different OSGeo
communities Java/C communities

Unix/Windows communities

- osgeo4w, ms4w- curriculum materials are available for education (there is a committee specifically for this)



Support use and development in the worldwide
community

Operate annual FOSS4G conference

Award the Sol Katz award for service to the community

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Sponsors of OSGeo

Sustaining sponsors

Supporting sponsors

Associate sponsors

- talk about locations of each sponsor and size (small to large)-


OSGeo Structure

Board of DirectorsExecutive Director

LocalChapters

OfficersOfficersOfficers

Loc

ChaptersFoundationProjects

Committees

Membership

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OSGeo Projects (part 1)

MapbenderMapGuide OpenMapServerOpenLayersWeb mapping

Desktop

Web mapping

GRASSQuantum GISIn incubation: deegree

In incubation: OSSIM, gvSIG

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OSGeo Projects (part 2)

FDOGDALGeoToolsGeospatial libraries

Metadata Catalog

GeoNetworkIn incubation: GEOS, metaCRS

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Requirements to Become an OSGeo Project

Code is under an OSI approved license

Geospatial software

Mature software

Substantial user community

Diverse developer community

Support relative standards

Links to existing OSGeo projects

(see: http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/evaluation.html)

- most of those requirements are recommended (first 2 points are required)-


A Project's Steering Committee

Each individual project within OSGeo must have a
committee that: Makes decisions on changes to the software through
a democratic vote

Makes sure proposed changes are documented

Makes sure changes are followed and adopted

Distributes sponsorship funds to developers

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Types of OSGeo Members

ParticipantMemberCharter Member- Have not registered themselves on osgeo.org site

- Have registered themselves on osgeo.org site- Publicly acknowledges their connection to OSGeo

- Must be voted in by other Charter members- Have the right to vote in elections of otherCharter members and board members

- tell them to become a member by registering for free on osgeo.org !!!!-


OSGeo Committees

EducationWebsiteConferenceFinanceBoardSystems MarketingPublic geodataIncubation

- tell them that this is where the work gets done-


Local Chapters

ItalyKoreaChina

Germany

British Columbia
CanadaJapanFrench
LanguageIndia

New Mexico
United States

PolandOttawa
CanadaQuebec
CanadaJapanKoreaJapanTwin Cites
United StatesSpanish
LanguageUnited KingdomCascadiaIn formation: Africa, Australia & New Zealand,Brazilian, Greek, Finland, Portugal, Taiwan

- worldwide coverage!-


Role of Local Chapters

Bring a more local context to OSGeo

Translate documents, websites, software

Provide networking opportunities

Provide training and support to local community

Promote OSGeo through events

- very important for future of osgeo-


How to Sponsor OSGeo

Foundation sponsorship

Sustaining sponsor: 50,000 USD

Principal sponsor: 20,000 USD

Supporting sponsor: 10,000 USD

Associate sponsor: 3,000 USD

Project sponsorship

Conference sponsorship

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Current Community


3397 person yearsEffort$186,820,158Replacement Cost200+Contributors15Projects12,154,652Source Lines of Code

OSGeo Stack: Source: http://www.ohloh.net/ (2009-05-07)- can't argue with those numbers!

MapServer Numbers


Source Lines of Code154,981

Contributors32

Effort40 person years

Replacement Cost$2,186,828

Source: http://www.ohloh.net/ (2009-05-07)

- can't argue with those numbers!

GDAL Numbers



Contributors27





GRASS Numbers



Contributors60





PostGIS Numbers



Contributors17





OpenLayers Numbers



Contributors12


Replacement Cost$910,709



QGIS Numbers



Contributors60





GeoNetwork Numbers


Source Lines of Code3,607,707

Contributors29




- largest numbers in the OSGeo stack


Number of users registered in OSGeo email lists.
(2009-05-02)

9791



Number of users registered on the OSGeo Wiki.
(2009-05-07)

6,126



Total pages on the OSGeo Wiki. (2009-05-07)

3,751



Unique visitors to osgeo.org for the month of April 2009

41,876



Google hits for osgeo. (2009-05-03)

616,000


In the Beginning...

OSGIS 2004, Ottawa, Canada

2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved- projects included: MapBender, Mapbuilder, GRASS, MapServer, JUMP, PostGIS


FOSS4G Conference

Annual event bringing together the OSGeo community

Events have been held in Canada, United States,
Switzerland, South Africa

2009 will be in Australia, and 2010 in Spain

Growth in attendance from ~100 attendees in 2004 to
~1,000 attendees

Large corporate sponsors such as ESRI and Google

- talk about how the vibe is different at these events-

Sol Katz Award

Awarded annually by OSGeo to those
that have demonstrated leadership
in the community

2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved2006

2007

2008

2005

Frank Warmerdam
GDAL

Markus Neteler
GRASS

Steve Lime
MapServer

Paul Ramsey
PostGIS, GEOS, uDig

- 2005 FrankW- 2006 Markus Neteler- 2007 Steve Lime- 2008 Paul Ramsey

- Sophia Parafina (Ionic/Erdas)


OK, I see it's an active community,but are there companies offeringservices around OSGeo projects?

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YES!

OSGeo operates a service provider directory:http://www.osgeo.org/search_profile

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What Does theCommunity Need?

Developers / Non-developers: Send an email to the mailing list and introduce yourself

Decision makers Contact an OSGeo service provider




Questions?

Jeff McKenna [email protected]

Me with the neogeographers, October 2008

- show me the money!

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